Lot's of fun quotes as Governor Jim Gibbons carries forward his principled plan of full day napping minimal governance.
With a governor who refused to lift a financial hand to save the System from extinction, with a legislature faced with an impossible burden of having to solve every problem with a two-thirds vote to override the vetoes of this most dangerous man, a businessman in another state looking into Nevada would have good cause to believe that solving every problem in Nevada is such a monumental task that one would rather live and do business in other more progressive communities. (Jim Rogers' last memo as Chancellor via Fox5)
And Jimbo catches more collateral damage from the Ensign snogging:
campaign marked by a cocktail waitress's accusation that he tried to
force himself on her in a parking garage.
"These things don't end quickly," said Robert Uithoven, who managed
the Gibbons campaign. In Carson City, Gibbons's poor political
performance was reinforced by a spectacularly tendentious divorce from
his wife of 22 years, who for a while had the governor's mansion to
herself.
"Isn't that ironic?" said Sig Rogich, a longtime Republican
consultant. "In the land of quickie divorce, this is the longest one I
can remember and it's the governor's."(WaPo–via Ralston Flashything)
Ah, the Washington Post. Only you could catch Uithoven in a lie–by quoting puppet master and Gibbons-election co-conspirator Siggy Rogich.
And then there's the lady who runs Nevada's AmeriCorps who learned that the Guv didn't come up with any matching funds for a grant that would have brought $7.5 million to the state:
"At this point, we're not
sure what went wrong," Lecker-Pomaville said Monday, adding that
without the matching dollars "we would be the first state in the
country to lose our federal funding for AmeriCorps."(AP)
Oh, Ms. Lecker-Pomaville, you tried to promote volunteerism in the state of Gibbers, who has learned never offer a helping hand to anyone.
One Phil Mattera, who works for a government transparency group, apparently has never met a Gibbons-spokester before. Just check out his reaction to a Gube-spokester trying to spin the fact that the state's website about recovery funds is worse than American-Somoa's:
Asked about the critiques, Mendy Elliott, Gov. Gibbons’ deputy chief
of staff and overseer of all things stimulus in Nevada, said, “I can’t
disagree … that our Web site is deficient.”
In an initial conversation, Elliott blamed the state of the state’s
site on a lack of time, as officials had been so busy with the
Legislature. The four-month session ended June 1. But Mattera said
other states have held legislative sessions in recent months and still
developed more comprehensive, user-friendly sites.
“I don’t think we’ve heard this excuse before,” he said. (Sun)
Oh, Mendy, Mendy, Mendy. The right response is that the empty website reflects the guv's philosophy of minimalist government, hence Nevada has no state government to oversee.
Woah! Mendy's the state Stimulus Czarina, too!
In Nevada, where President Barack Obama made a major speech touting the
achievements of the stimulus plan, the state's share of stimulus money
is "very deficient", said Nevada's stimulus czar Mendy Elliott. "We are
certainly grateful for the help that we received but the fact of the
matter is … there should have been some thoughtfulness." (WSJ)
Oh, that mean old Obama! Forcing the Gube to take all that stimulus funding! How thoughtless of him!
Just a suggestion, though. Nobody call her "stimulus czar" in the Gube's presence, okay? I mean, you'd just be asking for trouble.
Finally, something Gibbons knows something about: he says sex scandals don't get in the way of his daily nap principled non-governance. (Fox5)
This just in: Gibbons denies he ever fondled a ferret. (Fox5)
Oh, come on. I wrote "fondled" didn't I? What verb would you have used?
Spectacular graphic — you’ve almost outdone yourself with this one! Bravo!!
But who’s the “lady”?
Doesn’t look like the
goober’s typical “date”.
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The ladle.